The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-05-25
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Pompadour silks are recommended for
dress frocks for young girls.
The safest colors for cheap portiorcs
are ollvo-grcen and brick red.
Wide Directoire rcvcrs appear on many
OF the imported French frocks.
Apple green and chestnut bronze is n
color combination favored in Paris.
Short backs and long front tabs are
the distinguishing marks of new wraps.
Long tlots of ribbon give decorative
effect to black and colOred lace over
dresses.
India silks and foulards will be the
rivals of China silks and pongees this
season.
We have taken note of some childrcn's
toilets which struck us as particularly
tasteful.
Combination costumes arc not sc much
worn as usual. Silk is made up Dy itself
and woolcns also.
Thin silks mixed with tuIle and Isle
1or evening wear are very popular addi-
tlons to summer wardrobe.
The favorite color for graduation
gowns are rose, blue, Nile green, and, of
course, heliotrope.
Indoors little girls wear frocks in the
shape of pelisse, loose and straight in
front. and completed ut the back by n
plat IN tho skirt let in between two
seams. a silk cord or ribbon sash goes
round the waist.
Fine woolen tissues are streakcd with
silk or lighter shade, forming stripes
or squares, and small pattern OF silk
dots, clover leaves, or small howcrcts of
SILK, initiating embroidery relief, is scat
tered oil over upon the dark ground.
Extremely pretty capotes for the
spring arc composed of birds wings.
Sometimes the wings are dyed of all
colors; sometimes they are left of their
own natural tint; they cover the capotc
almost entirely, with the exception of n
small pulling of silk or Grape at the
back.
Some OF the new wool novelties have
wooden grounds in light or dark shades
OF pure colors, on which i'll high relief
are lines of plush and frisc flower dc
signs III natural colors and realistic to II
degree III treatment. These goods are
high priced, and intended only for parts
of plain wool costumes.
While combinations of plain and fancy
Inquired goods, often in strongly con
trasted colors, remain extremely popu-
lar, many handsome dresses are made of
the same color throughout, but of two
fabrics, and for these refined toilets cx-
qulsltely fine cashmere and moire are
especially favored.
In the new fancy wooden materials in
troduced for the spring and summer
season we remark that small white pat
terms very frequently occur. In some
fabrics irregular white stripes form a
sort check pattern, in others large white
dots are scattered over plain or striped
colored grounds.
Costumes of imperial serge, camel's
hair, vigogne, tricot cloth and of fine
canvas patterned fabrics, without limit,
will be in great demand, made up in
combination with velvet-striped fabrics
of every description, or with skirt and
bodice trimmings of fancy colored satin
surah, figured with quaint geometric
and
In the Sandown mantles of cloth n
corbeille check in tones of feldmouse
has its cape sleeves defined by a braid
about five inches in width in dark
shade of brown. This bordering band
is drawn over the shoulder in folds, sug-
gestiye of braces, then carried in hatness
oyor the back to terminate on the skirt
with cluster of rich and massive pessc-
menterie balls.
The novelties in lace fchus might be
tersely described as an ingenious manip-
ulation of squares. Each one is due to
small handkerchief of that form, either
in cream or ecru, the surface of which
is almost covered by open work en-
broidery or lace. These handkerchiefs
are folded SO as to give o different shape
and appearance to each corner, and this,
with the assistance of ribbon, is achieved
so effectively that the four corners often
] appear completely disconnected,